| VA | HB5058 | Pass | Issuing citations; possession of marijuana and certain traffic offenses. Provides that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) |
| VA | HB5088 | Intro | Electric utility regulation; triennial Electric utility regulation; triennial review proceeding; emergency investigations; administration of earnings. Directs the State Corporation Commission (the Commission), for Dominion's 2021 triennial review, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB5118 | Intro | Unemployment compensation; benefits; one-week waiting period. Eliminates the one-week waiting period for an eligible unemployed individual to receive benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB5078 | Intro | School boards; paid leave; COVID-19. Requires each School boards; paid leave; COVID-19. Requires each school board to provide to each teacher or other school board employee who is employed in a public elementary or secondary school in the local schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB5141 | Intro | Possession of marijuana. Legalizes simple possession of marijuana. Current law provides a civil penalty of no more than $25 for the simple possession of marijuana. The bill also provides that simple possession of marijuana or its use by a child young...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-09
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB5043 | Pass | Mental health awareness response and community understanding services (Marcus) alert system. Provides that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) shall develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0041) |
| VA | HB5069 | Pass | Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits a law-enforcement officer from using a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties and provides for disciplinary sanctions on an officer who uses a neck restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) |
| VA | HB5087 | Pass | Unemployment compensation; short-time compensation; sunset repeal; emergency. Repeals two sunset provisions from legislation enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the General Assembly that, among other things, established a short-time compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | HB5048 | Pass | Outbreaks of communicable disease of public health threat; posting of information; emergency. Requires the Department of Health to make information about outbreaks of communicable diseases of public health threat at any medical care facility, residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012) |
| VA | HR621 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-14
Bill text as passed House (HR621ER) |
| VA | HB5052 | Pass | Legal holidays; Juneteenth. Recognizes the nineteenth day of June of each year, also known as Juneteenth, as a legal holiday in the Commonwealth to commemorate the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, the last of the former Confederate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) |
| VA | HB5030 | Engross | Monuments and memorials for war veterans; authority of localities. Changes the authority of a locality from the authority to "contextualize or cover" to the authority to "alter" a monument or memorial for war veterans located within the geographical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-05
Passed by indefinitely in Local Government with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HR608 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Saba Labib Shami.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-10-02
Bill text as passed House (HR608ER) |
| VA | HR588 | Pass | Celebrating the life of the Honorable John Henry Hager.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-25
Bill text as passed House (HR588ER) |
| VA | HB5116 | Engross | Paid quarantine leave. Requires public and private employers to provide eligible employees paid quarantine leave. The bill provides that such paid quarantine leave is available for immediate use by the employee, regardless of how long the employee ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-09-16
Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (14-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HR550 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Nathaniel Thomas Connally, Jr., M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-28
Bill text as passed House (HR550ER) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB1211 | Pass | Driver privilege cards; penalty. Authorizes the issuance of new driver privilege cards by the Department of Motor Vehicles to an applicant who (i) has reported income from Virginia sources or been claimed as a dependent on an individual tax return fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1227) |
| VA | HB785 | Pass | Local tax authority. Modifies or eliminates several restrictions that apply to taxes imposed by counties, and establishes a new restriction on cigarette taxes imposed by any locality. The bill authorizes most counties to impose an admissions tax, not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1214) |
| VA | HB56 | Pass | Minimum wage; tipped employees; classification. Prohibits an employer from classifying an individual as a tipped employee if the individual is prohibited by applicable federal or state law or regulation from soliciting tips.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1145) |
| VA | HB201 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1153) |
| VA | HB572 | Pass | Distributed renewable energy. Promotes the establishment of distributed renewable solar and other renewable energy. The measure (i) requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program that allows multifamily cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1188) |
| VA | HB1103 | Pass | Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies; local option pilot program. Provides that elections for local governing bodies may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill defines as the method of casting and tabulating votes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1054) |
| VA | HB913 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; immunity from disciplinary action; certain students who make reports. Requires the governing board of each nonprofit private institution of higher education and each public institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1041) |
| VA | HB1537 | Pass | Memorials for war veterans. Provides that a locality may remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover any monument or memorial for war veterans on the locality's public property, not including a monument or memorial located in a publicly owned cemetery,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1101) |
| VA | HB477 | Pass | Juveniles; trial as adult. Increases from 14 years of age to 16 years of age the minimum age at which a juvenile must be tried as an adult in circuit court for murder or aggravated malicious wounding; however, if the juvenile is 14 years of age or ol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0987) |
| VA | HB1150 | Pass | Inquiry and report of immigration status; persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes. Provides that the provisions requiring (i) jail officers to ascertain the citizenship of any inmate taken into custody at a jail, (ii) officers in charge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0995) |
| VA | HB1428 | Pass | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0916) |
| VA | HB66 | Pass | Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| VA | HB1107 | Pass | Charter; City of Charlottesville; city organization; council. Modernizes and reorganizes aspects of the charter of the City of Charlottesville. The bill updates and repeals various provisions to conform to state and federal law as well as current cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| VA | HB1547 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that any student is eligible for in-state tuition who (i) attended high school for at least two years in the Commonwealth and either (a) graduated on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB506 | Pass | County manager plan; election of board members by instant runoff voting. Provides that, in a county operating under the county manager plan of government (Arlington County), elections to nominate candidates for and to elect candidates to the board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0713) |
| VA | HB167 | Pass | Electric utilities; fuel cost recovery. Requires an electric utility, as a condition of approval of any request by an electric utility for recovery through its fuel factor of costs incurred under a natural gas capacity contract not previously subject...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) |
| VA | HB687 | Pass | Doulas; certification; registry. Provides that no person shall use or assume the title "state-certified doula," as defined in the bill, unless such person is a community-based doula who has received training and education as a doula from an entity ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0724) |
| VA | HB1106 | Pass | Health insurance program for local government employees; transit companies. Adds employees of a transit company to the definition of "employees of local governments" for the purposes of the Commonwealth's health insurance program for local government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555) |
| VA | HB1226 | Pass | Collection of debts by hospitals affiliated with public institutions of higher education. Prohibits the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority and the University of Virginia Medical Center from participating in debt collection effor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577) |
| VA | HB1105 | Pass | Affordable housing; City of Charlottesville. Adds the City of Charlottesville to the list of localities with authority to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0486) |
| VA | HB759 | Fail | Strategic lawsuits against public participation; special motion to dismiss; stay of discovery; fees and costs. Establishes a procedure by which a party alleging that a claim filed against him is a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB257 | Pass | School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0335) |
| VA | HB1663 | Fail | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates explicit causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB761 | Fail | Elections; preclearance of certain covered practices required. Requires the governing body of a covered jurisdiction, prior to enacting or seeking to administer any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or any standard, practice, or procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HR173 | Engross | Commending Rosa B. Price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR190 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Lorine Bernice Allen Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR420 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Karenne Wood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ420ER) |
| VA | HJR416 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Mortimer Caplin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ416ER) |
| VA | HJR419 | Pass | Celebrating the life Roland Arlington Wiggins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ419ER) |
| VA | HJR415 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Dr. Reginald Dennin Butler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ415ER) |
| VA | HJR410 | Pass | Commending the Piedmont Valley Community College Student Launch Team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ410ER) |
| VA | HJR417 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Annie Mae Dorns Merritt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ417ER) |
| VA | HJR418 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Mark Harril Saunders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ418ER) |
